Dream Wife (1953)

Directed by

Sidney Sheldon

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A businessman plans to marry his sophisticated fiancée but grows frustrated with her career-focused life. He travels to a foreign country where he is offered a more traditional wife from a local dignitary.

lightheartedplayfulbreezycharmingromanticwhimsicalcomedicmid-century

What happens

Dream Wife is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Sidney Sheldon and starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, and Walter Pidgeon, with Betta St. John, Buddy Baer, and Eduard Franz. The film was produced by Dore Schary, from a screenplay by Sheldon, Herbert Baker, and Alfred Lewis Levitt. The music score was by Conrad Salinger, the cinematography by Milton R. Krasner and the art direction by Daniel B. Cathcart and Cedric Gibbons. The costume design by Herschel McCoy and Helen Rose received an Oscar nomination. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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